Chapter 149 - #148 Meeting 2 idiots (1/2)

”Stop standing there and stare at it, it's not gonna grow legs and come to you...” Akashi said while jumping down to the crater.

Once Kurome and Poney heard his voice, they woke up from their shock and quickly followed after him while looking at his back with admiration.

When they arrived in front of her weapon, they were greeted with a slightly different sheath. The original sheath was black with a few red markings made with Akashi's flames but red markings completely disappeared and were replaced by yellow glowing ones. Akashi was slightly worried since he didn't want it to glow at night which would give Kurome a big disadvantage during the stealth missions but the more carefully he looked at it, the more it looked like its glow intensifies with the bigger intensity of the outside light.

”It looks completely different...” Kurome muttered while hesitating to take hold of the hilt.

”Take it, it's your weapon so no one else is going to take hold of it. Be careful, it's not exactly the same weapon.” Akashi said with a smile before he warned her with a serious expression.

Kurome nodded and gripped the hilt with one hand and sheath with another. She took it out of the ground and stared at the yellow markings on the sheath for a while.

*Gulp* Kurome gulped down, she herself had no idea why is she so nervous but she steeled herself and very slowly draw the katana out of its sheath. When just a bit of its blade was revealed it was visible that the sharp edge that was previously green was replaced by yellow color and yellow sparks started to dance around it.

Kurome was slightly startled by it but she narrowed her eyes and kept holding it without any fear.

*Inhale* *exhale* Kurome prepared herself and drew her entire katana in one motion. Making an arc of yellow lightning in front of her in the same motion as she drew her blade. However, the lighting was behaving a bit wild and tried to attack Akashi and Poney but Akashi already anticipated it and took Poney by her waist and jumped back out of its reach.

”Ah, sorry!” Kurome looked behind her at Akashi and apologized with a regretful expression.

”Don't worry about it, tame it and show it that you don't need its protection” Akashi said with a smile while still holding Poney. Akashi was suspecting that this new weapon recognized Kurome as its owner but it still acts on its instincts. Kurome needs to show it that she doesn't need its protection but only help.

”...Can you put me down?” Poney asked with a blank expression despite being all shocked just a few seconds ago.

”Sure...” Akashi said and put her down.

'I guess she doesn't like it when someone carries her around, good to know.' Akashi thought with a small evil smile inwardly.

Kurome pointed her katana at the sky.

”Aaah!” Kurome shouted while a big ball of yellow concentrated electricity appeared on the tip of her katana. Soon after that, lighting bolts started shooting out of that ball to surroundings, destroying the ground even further. Her hand started to shake so she gripped the hilt with both of her hands, trying to calm her weapon down.

Poney and Akashi just kept observing from a safe distance for more than 5 minutes before the ball of electricity got suċkėd into her katana and only small sparks occasionally danced across its blade.

[+2000 XP to your Master Blacksmith class for successfully creating your first weapon on Teigu's level]

Master Blacksmith (Lv. 9; +10 Str, +10 Const) 450/2560 XP

'Successfully? Does that mean there is a chance of failure? Maybe if Kurome failed to put it under control?' Akashi thought with frowned brows.

*Huff* *Huff* Kurome was left breathless as she kept panting.

”Good job, it looks like you showed it that you don't need its protection.” Akashi approached and gently patted her back a few times.

”It was much harder than I anticipated, half-way through, it stopped trying to convince me peacefully and started sending sparks of electricity directly into my body through the hilt but I was able to endure it” Kurome replied with a smile but her face was full of sweat and slightly pale.

”T-This is impossible...Yes...this must be a dream” Poney kept muttering behind Akashi as she kept looking around with a dumbfounded expression.

”Is she alright?” Despite Kurome's exhausted state, she still asked if Poney is alright.

”Yeah...Let her absorb it, she will recover soon enough. Anyway, you should name it if you still haven't done it.” Akashi looked back at Poney just to shook his head with a helpless smile at Kurome.

”Name, huh? How about...” Kurome muttered while looking at the yellow edge of the blade.

”...Kaminari?” Kurome said with an uncertain expression while looking at Akashi for his approval.

”Good name! However, even if I didn't like it, it wouldn't matter since it is your weapon. Anyway, we should get going and really quickly since that lighting at the beginning was pretty large and loud. I don't doubt that the Capital already send someone to investigate so let's run some distance away from the Capital before joining the main road leading back to the Capital. We wouldn't want to meet any spies or ȧssassins on our way, we would also look suspicious for walking from the same direction as that lighting.” Akashi said with a smile while patting Kurome's shoulder.

”I guess we better disappear” Kurome nodded with a serious expression and wanted to jump out of the crater but she noticed that Poney was still inside her own world.

”Don't worry about her, let's go” Akashi said and put Poney under his arm, carrying her like a sack of potatoes.